Package: apt-listchanges Version: 2.85.13+nmu1 Severity: important Dear Maintainer,
on a regular run of ‘aptitude safe-upgrade’, APT List Changes filled the temporary filesystem to capacity and kept reporting over and over and over again (* literally thousands of times) the problem it itself had caused: […] Get: 2 http://security.debian.org/ jessie/updates/main iceweasel i386 38.2.1esr-1~deb8u1 [41.2 MB] Get: 3 http://security.debian.org/ jessie/updates/main iceweasel i386 38.2.1esr-1~deb8u1 [41.2 MB] Fetched 13.7 MB in 4min 42s (48.3 kB/s) Retrieving bug reports... Done Parsing Found/Fixed information... Done Reading changelogs... Done apt-listdifferences: fetching source packages Get:1 iceweasel_38.2.1esr-1~deb8u1.dsc [35.3 kB] Get:2 iceweasel_38.2.1esr.orig-compare-locales.tar.bz2 [29.2 kB] […] Get:92 iceweasel_38.2.1esr-1~deb8u1.debian.tar.xz [203 kB] Fetched 242 MB in 6s (161 kB/s) apt-listdifferences: skipping differences for src:bbcgetnrec - unable to download sources tar: mozilla-esr38/dom/broadcastchannel: Cannot mkdir: No space left on device tar: mozilla-esr38/dom/broadcastchannel: Cannot mkdir: No space left on device tar: mozilla-esr38/dom/broadcastchannel/tests: Cannot mkdir: No such file or directory [*…] tar: mozilla-esr38/editor/nsIDocumentStateListener.idl: Cannot open: No such file or directory tar: mozilla-esr38/editor: Cannot mkdir: No space left on device tar: mozilla-esr38/editor/nsIHTMLInlineTableEditor.idl: Cannot open: No such file or directory tar: Exiting with failure status due to previous errors dpkg-source: error: tar --no-same-owner --no-same-permissions --anchored --no-wildcards-match-slash --exclude */.pc --exclude .pc -xf - gave error exit status 2 Use of uninitialized value $from in stat at /usr/share/perl/5.20/File/Copy.pm line 211. Use of uninitialized value $from in string eq at /usr/share/perl/5.20/File/Copy.pm line 64. Use of uninitialized value $from in -d at /usr/share/perl/5.20/File/Copy.pm line 96. Use of uninitialized value $_[0] in substitution (s///) at /usr/share/perl/5.20/File/Basename.pm line 180. fileparse(): need a valid pathname at /usr/share/perl/5.20/File/Copy.pm line 51. apt-listdifferences: removing old src:iceweasel 38.2.0esr-1~deb8u1 (Reading database ... 267222 files and directories currently installed.) Preparing to unpack .../iceweasel_38.2.1esr-1~deb8u1_i386.deb ... Leaving 'diversion of /usr/bin/firefox to /usr/bin/firefox.real by iceweasel' Unpacking iceweasel (38.2.1esr-1~deb8u1) over (38.2.0esr-1~deb8u1) ... […] Processing triggers for menu (2.1.47) ... Processing triggers for man-db (2.7.0.2-5) ... Processing triggers for hicolor-icon-theme (0.13-1) ... Processing triggers for desktop-file-utils (0.22-1) ... Processing triggers for mime-support (3.58) ... Setting up iceweasel (38.2.1esr-1~deb8u1) ... […] Processing triggers for menu (2.1.47) ... Current status: 0 updates [-2]. Fortunately, it then released the space it had reserved on /tmp. I read through /usr/share/doc/apt-listchanges/README.Debian, /usr/share/doc/apt-listchanges/TODO, /usr/share/doc/apt-listchanges/changelog.gz, /etc/apt/listchanges.conf, /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/20listdifferences, but could not find out what to do, e.g. how to set a different temporary directory. -- System Information: Debian Release: 8.1 APT prefers stable-updates APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'stable') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 3.16.0-4-686-pae (SMP w/4 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_IE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_IE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system) Versions of packages apt-listchanges depends on: ii apt 1.0.9.8 ii debconf [debconf-2.0] 1.5.56 ii debianutils 4.4+b1 ii python 2.7.9-1 ii python-apt 0.9.3.11 ii python-support 1.0.15 ii ucf 3.0030 apt-listchanges recommends no packages. Versions of packages apt-listchanges suggests: ii edbrowse [www-browser] 3.5.1-1 ii epiphany-browser [www-browser] 3.14.1-1 ii exim4-daemon-light [mail-transport-agent] 4.84-8 ii gnome-terminal [x-terminal-emulator] 3.14.1-1 ii iceweasel [www-browser] 38.2.1esr-1~deb8u1 ii links2 [www-browser] 2.8-2+b3 ii mate-terminal [x-terminal-emulator] 1.8.1+dfsg1-4 pn python-glade2 <none> ii python-gtk2 2.24.0-4 ii w3m [www-browser] 0.5.3-19 ii xterm [x-terminal-emulator] 312-2 -- debconf information: apt-listchanges/confirm: false apt-listchanges/which: news apt-listchanges/email-address: root apt-listchanges/frontend: pager apt-listchanges/save-seen: true
